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Large pale pink flowers from mid spring to early summer.
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Description: Solitary or freely
offsetting from the
areoles:
Stem: Up to 10 cm tall , 8-15 cm in diameter colourful and
highly decorative, with characteristic horizontal clear and dark
strips. The clear areas (above the areoles) are
pastel-grey-pink while the dark zone (below the areoles) are Deep
olive-green to brown-purple.
Spines: Nearly useless in terms of defence.
Note: Seems to be a pretty variable plant you might get some
other names which are effectively the same plant.... and also not sure
all plants identified as this are really this.
Cultivation:
summer grower
and pretty easy, water regularly in summer,
keep rather dry in winter,
but can handle excessive water to few water, best
for half-shade
but
grow well in full sun and full shade too (but in
full sun turns an
uneven brownish red colour).
Seed
Collecting: Permit
fruit to
ripen, fruit must be significantly
overripe before harvesting seed; clean and dry seeds.
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Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus
Family)
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense
Backeberg
nom. inval. (Art. 8.2), Descriptiones Cactacearum Novarum 3:
6,1963
Scientific name: Gymnocalycium anisitsii ssp. damsii
(Schumann) G. Charles, CSI 20: 17, 2005
Other
Synonyms:
- Gymnocalycium damsii (K. Schumann 1903) Britton & Rose, The
Cactaceae 3: 163
- Gymnocalycium damsii var. anisitsii
Katalogname, zit. in Schneekloth-Liste
- Gymnocalycium tucavocense Haage SL
1992/93?
- Gymnocalycium anisitsii var. tucavocaense
- Gymnocalycium joossensianum
- Gymnocalycium griseopallidum
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Origin: Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay.
Habitat: G. damsii (anisitsii) grows in open areas under the protection of
low bushes. It often form large groups and is extremely
variable.
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Photo of conspecific taxa,
varieties, forms and cultivars
of
plants belonging to the
Gymnocalycium anisitii complex
(This
Taxon
has lots of synonyms
(
like many other cacti) with
several controversial varieties and subspecies):
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